Mathrubhumi.com reports: The personal data of over 30,000 students at Kannur University were reportedly leaked. A private cyber security agency in Kochi found that the data were published on a dark web portal. As per the preliminary assumption, the data of the students were leaked due to a technical glitch in the university’s official...
Yvette Orozco reports: Pearland ISD is alerting parents and others associated with the district that parties responsible for a recent breach of its computer system may try to contact them. In a video statement released on the district’s website, Superintendent Larry Berger said that an ongoing investigation shows no evidence so far that any sensitive information...
Another Texas school district has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyberattack. Tuloso Midway Independent School District in Nueces County, Texas, has slightly under 3,900 students. A notice posted on their website yesterday explained that on March 16, 2022, one employee’s email account was accessed without authorization. The statement does not reveal...
Jonathan Greig reports: Public schools in two Michigan counties are reopening on Thursday after a ransomware attack crippled their ability to function and closed doors to students for three days. All of the public schools in Jackson and Hillsdale counties announced their reopening on Thursday in letters to parents, assuring them that cybersecurity experts, tech...
News10 reports an update on the cyberattack that hit Albany schools in New York earlier this month: Students, faculty, and staff in the City School District of Albany who use Chromebooks to access the internet had their services restored on Monday. District systems and resources are still unavailable, though, for anyone using desktops or...
Martin Slagter reports: Jackson County Intermediate School District officials took network systems offline after technology staff determined suspicious activity to be the result of a “ransomware incident.” Public school districts in both counties canceled classes Monday, Nov. 14, with the system outage impacting a wide range of building operations including but not limited to...
As seen on Catalin Cimpanu’s RiskyBiz News: Major breach in Hungary: A hacking group named Sawarim has breached eKRÉTA, the company behind a school management platform widely deployed across Hungary. The platform is believed to store the personal details of more than 720,000 Hungarian students, aged between 6 and 18 years. While the hackers told...
Anna Zhadan reports: The Bishop of Hereford’s Bluecoat School in the Tupsley district of Hereford, England, suffered a data breach back in October, when threat actors attacked the institution’s systems. However, at the time, the school reassured that the personal information of students and staff was safe. Yet now, the school, which has around...
David Braue reports: Victorian Government agencies are scrambling to evaluate their exposure after a widely-used technology services provider last week suffered a cyber attack that risks exposure of the personal and health details of thousands of students and their families. PNORS Technology Group businesses Datatime and Netway – which provide document and data capture,...
The State of Cybersecurity for K-12 School Districts